Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Good morning, this is Patti and I am happy to be your host for this week's challenge here at Sweet Sketch Wednesday and above you will see this week's sketch designed for us by our very own talented Arlana, each week you will find an inspiring sketch to help with your designs.

We are sponsored this week by the wonderful Meljen's Designs where you will find a grand variety of fabulous images. Our prize winner will receive a choice of 4 of their beautiful images. We ask that you stop by there and take a look at the store after visiting with us.

Be sure to grab your Top Three Banner on the sidebar! Congratulations to you too!

Before showing you what our team has created to inspire you this week, I would like to show you something else. When I joined this great group at SSW this past summer, they were in the midst of sharing pictures and information on their home towns. It was like a mini vacation and a glimpse into the lives of my new friends. And from the comments posted by some of you, I think that you enjoyed it as well. I am going to post some pictures today of my stamping space, as I am one that enjoys seeing where others create and find inspiration and I think that maybe you do as well. I haven't discussed this with my teammates and some of them may not be able to do this, but guys if you do, I will love seeing your rooms.

I have a flat and a drafting table on which to work, this gives me a view out of either window and plenty of space to work. I re-purposed lots of furniture to create my space in this spare bedroom. All of my drawers that you can see hold ribbon, embellishments and tools, as well as extra cards and supplies. I left a twin bed here in the room, my cats love sleeping on it while I work and it gives me a place to spread out work sometimes.

This chest holds all of my wood mounted Stampin' Up stamps as well as a drawer of miscellaneous brands.

My die cutting area. My scraps are filed by colors in the large file boxes on the bottom shelf.

Here is my inspiration, Sable. He is never very far away when I am working in here, and sometimes you will find his brother Salem curled up with him.

Thanks for hanging with me during this long post....now to the important stuff, our teams beautiful creations for this week. Enjoy!

Well that is all for me this week, I hope something in my post has inspired you, and we look forward to seeing your beautiful work this week using Arlana's sketch. Thanks for staying with me during this long post. Take care and here's hoping your week is everything you want it to be.

Hugs, Patti

To play along this week is really simple:

1. Create a card using the sketch of the week. You may use any stamp or element you have to create your card, however if you have any Meljen's Designs images, we'd love to see what you can do with them.

2. If posting to an online gallery, please use Sweet Sketch 121.

3. Add a link on your blog to Sweet Sketch Wednesday.

4. Post your card along with the link.

5. Sign into Inlinkz and add a direct link back to your card on your site.

6. Be sure to leave a comment here as we love hearing from you. You must do this to be considered for the Grand Prize.

And most important: Have Fun!!!!

Thanks so very much to everyone who joined us last week. We truly love seeing the creativity that all of you bring to our challenges.
Everyone did such a great job and we're really looking forward to seeing what you do with my SWEET sketch this week.
Thanks for stopping by! Have a SWEET week !!! Arlana

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Sweet Sketch Wednesday, Digi Stamp Boutique and Miche Bags

Sharon

Hello to all of my followers! It's a new week again. The weeks seems to be going by so fast. This is Arlana posting this week. For those of you that don't know, I'm the owner of Sweet Sketch Wednesday. I am having a little trivia contest this week. There will be 4 cards made by me. One of the cards is wrong. To play along and have a chance to win another prize, you will need to go over to my Miche Bag site, become a follower and post there which number is the wrong sketch and which Demi Bag is your favorite. I will pick a winner once I have had 30 players for this compact mirror and post the winner on my Miche Bag Blog .

Then for a chance to win a bigger prize, head over to my Facebook site and become a fan. After I have reached 50 fans on Facebook I will let the winner choose one of these three coin purses.

Abbie

Karen

Robin

Miche bags are a fun magnetic bag. You can change out the cover to match any outfit. One Bag, Endless Possibilities. Run over when you're finished here and take a look.

Our sponsor this week is Sally Ann with Digi Stamp Boutique. Sally Ann has the most adorable handbag images. I knew the minute I started selling Miche bags that I needed to do those images. Sally Ann has alot of adorable images and she creates new images every month. We want to thank Sally Ann for being our continued sponsor. This week's prize from Sally Ann is six digis of the winner's choice. So don't forget to run check out Digi Stamp Boutique .

Be sure to grab your Top Three Banner on the sidebar! Congratulations to you too!

Well, let's not delay any longer....on with the delightful cards from our Design Team.

Arlana-Sweetberry Designs

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Jackie-Paper Moments

Nancy- Mulberry Station

Patti-Patti's Paper Creations

Genevieve-Genevieve's Creations

Linda-The Stampers Touch

Jeannie-Dragonfly Journeys

Sharon-Ink Lined to Stamp

Michelle- Michelle's Blog and Cards

Kathie-Kathiez Kardz

To play along this week is really simple:

1. Create a card using the sketch of the week. You may use any stamp or element you have to create your card, however if you have any Digi Stamp Boutique images, we'd love to see what you can do with them.

2. If posting to an online gallery, please use Sweet Sketch 119.

3. Add a link on your blog to Sweet Sketch Wednesday.

4. Post your card along with the link.
5. Sign into Inlinkz and add a direct link back to your card on your site.

6. Be sure to leave a comment here as we love hearing from you. You must do this to be considered for the Grand Prize.

And most important: Have Fun!!!!

Thanks so very much to everyone who joined us last week. We truly love seeing the creativity that all of you bring to our challenges.

Everyone did such a great job and we're really looking forward to seeing what you do with

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Hello Sweet Sketch Wednesday followers. This is Nancy posting this week for SWEET SKETCH WEDNESDAY
from Northern Arizona. We are finally cooling off here a little bit. Instead of being in the 90's it is in the 70's. I think that fall may be just around the corner. It is still really hot down in Phoenix and I am really glad I don't live there. It is like stepping into a furnace in the summer time. Phoenix has also had some horrible dust storms this year called "Haboob". I live an hour and a half away from Phoenix and I woke up one morning after one of their dust storms and we had a thick haze which looked like fog over all of the city that I live in. The dust had come all the way up here. People that have asthma really had a hard time with all the dirt in the air. We are still experiencing the monsoons here with late afternoon thunder showers. It has been so nice to have the rain.

For those of you who are new to our blog, we welcome you to the Sweet Sketch Wednesday challenge! We are so happy to have you join us! And for our loyal followers of Sweet Sketch Wednesday, we welcome you back and thank you for your ongoing support!!!

Our wonderful sponsor this week is Tammy from A Day For Daisies! And, our Grand Prize Winner of this challenge will receive a $12.00 Gift Certificate to use at the ADFD shop! Wow, you can't beat that!

1. Create a card using the sketch of the week. You may use any stamp or element you have to create your card, however if you have any A Day For Daisies images, we'd love to see what you can do with them.

2. If posting to an online gallery, please useSweet Sketch 119.

3. Add a link on your blog to Sweet Sketch Wednesday.

4. Post your card along with the link.

5. Sign into Inlinkz and add a direct link back to your card on your site.

6. Be sure to leave a comment here as we love hearing from you. You must do this to be considered for the Grand Prize.

And most important: Have Fun!!!!

Thanks so very much to everyone who joined us last week. We truly love seeing the creativity that all of you bring to our challenges. Everyone did such a great job and we're really looking forward to seeing what you do with Arlana's Fabulous sketch this week.Thanks for stopping by! Nancy